Bernhard von Mutius

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Bernhard von Mutius (born May 7, 1949 in Heidelberg ) is a German social scientist, philosopher, management coach and author.

Life

The son of the student pastor Albrecht von Mutius and his wife Eleke von Mutius (born von Veltheim) grew up in Heidelberg and Bad Godesberg and attended the humanistic Beethoven high school in Bonn . He studied political science, history and philosophy in Marburg and was active in the student movement in the 1970s, including as a board member of the Association of German Student Associations (VDS). Following his doctorate, Die Rosa Luxemburg Legende, at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main , he initially carried out various teaching activities with a focus on the history of European ideas and the history of science .

Since the early 1980s, Bernhard von Mutius has been working as an independent management coach and consultant for numerous German and international companies. In 1989 he founded the interdisciplinary mountain path forum Thinking of the Future eV , of which he is still chairman today. Contributors to this forum were scientists and philosophers such as Francisco Varela , Humberto Maturana , Heinz von Foerster and Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker .

In 1995 he co-founded the corporate citizenship network “Company: Partners for Young People” (UPJ). In the same year - together with Hans-Jörg Bullinger and the Fraunhofer Institute IAO - he initiated the Stuttgart Management Symposia . Since 1999 he has been planning the “Johannisberg Talks” and other dialogues between science , business and culture as well as future forums to convey interdisciplinary thinking and new management knowledge as a scientific consultant . He develops strategic projects and innovative formats for companies and social organizations. He is a senior advisor and member of the teaching team at the HPI School of Design Thinking in Potsdam , a founding member of the “New Club of Paris” and the “Denkwerk Zukunft - Foundation for Cultural Renewal” network. In addition to his innovation and consulting projects as well as voluntary work, he works on various advisory boards, including for the journal Internationale Politik of the German Society for Foreign Policy (DGAP) and for the Club of Rome schools. He is the author of numerous publications on the change from an industrial to a knowledge society and the associated renewal processes in business and society .

Works (selection)

Books:

  • The Rosa Luxemburg legend. Volume I . Verlag Marxistische Blätter, Frankfurt am Main 1978, ISBN 3-88012-545-7 .
  • The art of renewal: what the successful do differently. 12 commandments of success . Campus Verlag, Frankfurt a. M., New York 1995, ISBN 978-3-593-35267-1 .
  • The transformation of the world: a dialogue with the future . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 978-3-608-94271-2 .
  • The other intelligence. How we will think tomorrow. An almanac of new approaches from science, society and culture . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 978-3-608-94085-5 .
  • Heads or tails: do we win or gamble away our future? Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-608-94453-2 .

Essays:

  • Against spontaneity . In: Facit . No. 32, December 1973, p. 41 ff.
  • Fiction and Truth in Union History . In: Controversy over the book: "History of the German trade union movement" . o. c. 1979, pp. 123-44. contents
  • Value plus values: sustainability. In: Andreas Grosz, ORGATEC: Living at work: Trend book Living and Working in the Future . Hanser, Munich / Vienna 2004, ISBN 978-3-446-22914-3 .
  • Rethinking Leadership in the Knowledge Society. In: Ahmed Bounfour: Intellectual capital for communities nations, regions, and cities . Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann, Amsterdam, Boston 2005, ISBN 978-0-7506-7773-8 .

literature

  • Uwe Jean Heuser : "Morality in cost accounting". Corporate scandals and falling prices: Everyone is talking about the loss of confidence in the economy - but how do you recognize credible companies . In: The time . No. 40 of September 26, 2002, p. 27.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of references. In: vonmutius.de. Retrieved September 29, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Information on the Bergweg Forum. In: vonmutius.de. Retrieved September 29, 2016 .
  3. ↑ UPJ network | Corporate Citizenship | Corporate Social Responsibility: Home. In: www.upj.de. Retrieved September 29, 2016 .
  4. ^ Johannisberg Talks and Stuttgart Management Symposia. In: vonmutius.de. Retrieved September 29, 2016 .
  5. ^ At the same time: Frankfurt (Main), Univ., Diss., 1977. Only one volume has appeared.
personal data
SURNAME Mutius, Bernhard von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social scientist and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg